Good Night and Good Luck Dodging Claymore Shrapnel, McCarthy!

Is there still a link somewhere for the Annie Proulx story that Brokeback Mountain was adapted from? I watched the movie on dvd yesterday afternoon and uh, I was expecting to be swept up into it and so far -- that isn't happening.

I think that one of my main impressions of the movie was the extreme poverty that both main characters lived in (well, up until the time that Jack marries into the farm equipment business) -

perhaps that made the biggest impression on me because I watched it less than two weeks after watching Texas Ranch House -- it's like, in 150 years - some things just don't change.

sumi, I think most of them have been taken down, but this one is still up, possibly because it's a slightly different version than the one that was published in Close Range, or possibly because it's a non-U.S. site.

Thank you!

So, if I was going to netflix Apocalypse Now, should I go for the original or the Redux? Or both?

Definitely the original -- all the Redux-added scenes did was make it longer.

I agree. I thought the Redux was interesting in the context of having seen the original way too many times, but it definitely shouldn't be your first experience of the movie.

I agree. I thought the Redux was interesting in the context of having seen the original way too many times, but it definitely shouldn't be your first experience of the movie.

Definitely agree with this.

Hee:

Tom Hanks has admonished critics of his new movie The Da Vinci Code of making "a very big mistake." The actor hit out at the Catholic backlash the film has received ahead of its worldwide release next week, insisting it is much more than a religious rant. He told London's Evening Standard newspaper, "We always knew there would be a segment of society that would not want this movie to be shown. But the story we tell is loaded with all sorts of hooey and fun kind of scavenger-hunt-type nonsense. If you are going to take any sort of movie at face value, particularly a huge-budget motion picture like this, you'd be making a very big mistake. It's a damn good story and a lot of fun... all it is is dialogue. That never hurts."

I love how he gets right to the heart of it and the reason why it should be a fun movie to see.

While on vacation, I found this adorable paperback version of the short story (in a Walgreen's in San Juan) and quickly bought it up. Christopher and I both read it and loved it.